THE POCKET BIBLE : : : : OR : : : : C H R I S T I A N T H E P R I N T E R

A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

B y E U G E N E S U E

In Two Volumes

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BY

D A N I E L D E L E O N

NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY, 1910

Copyright 1910, by the NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.

INDEX

Volume 1.

PART I. THE SOCIETY OF JESUS.

INTRODUCTION1

CHAPTER.

I.THE THEFT7

II.THE NEOPHYTE18

III.THE SALE OF INDULGENCES33

IV.THE "TEST OF THE LUTHERANS"53

V.MONSIEUR JOHN78

VI.THE FRANC-TAUPIN87

VII.BROTHER ST. ERNEST-MARTYR112

VIII. IN THE GARRET128

IX.THE PENITENT133

X.LOYOLA AND HIS DISCIPLES138

XI.MOTHER AND DAUGHTER166

XII.HERVE'S DEMENTIA176

XIII. CALVINISTS IN COUNCIL193

XIV.HENA'S DIARY231

XV.DIARY OF ST. ERNEST-MARTYR244

XVI.THE TAVERN OF THE BLACK GRAPE252

XVII. THE COTTAGE OF ROBERT ESTIENNE266

XVIII. FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE286

XIX.ON THE ROAD TO PARIS304

XX.JANUARY 21, 1535323

Volume 2.

PART II—THE HUGUENOTS.

INTRODUCTION1

CHAPTER.

I.THE QUEEN'S "FLYING SQUADRON"7

II. ANNA BELL32

III.THE AVENGERS OF ISRAEL71

IV.GASPARD OF COLIGNY90

V.FAMILY FLOTSAM112

VI.THE BATTLE OF ROCHE-LA-BELLE132

VII."CONTRE-UN"163

VIII.ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S NIGHT185

IX.THE SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE215

X.THE LAMBKINS' DANCE233

XI.CAPTURE OF CORNELIA254

XII.THE DUKE OF ANJOU264

XIII.THE BILL IS PAID273

EPILOGUE288

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The epoch covered by this, the 16th story of Eugene Sue's dramatic historic series, entitled The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, extends over the turbulent yet formative era known in history as the Religious Reformation.

The social system that had been developing since the epoch initiated by the 8th story of the series, The Abbatial Crosier; or, Bonaik and Septimine, that is, the feudal system, and which is depicted in full bloom in the 14th story of the series, The Iron Trevet; or, Jocelyn the Champion, had been since suffering general collapse with the approach of the bourgeois, or capitalist system, which found its first open, or political, expression in the Reformation, and which was urged into life by Luther, Calvin and other leading adversaries of the Roman Catholic regime.

The history of the Reformation, or rather, of the conflict between the clerical polity which symbolized the old and the clerical polity which symbolized the new social order, is compressed within the covers of this one story with the skill at once of the historian, the scientist, the philosopher and the novelist. The various springs from which human action flows, the various types which human crises produce, the virtues and the vices which great historic conflicts heat into activity—all these features of social motion, never jointly reproduced in works of history, are here drawn in vivid colors and present a historic canvas that is prime in the domain of literature.

In view of the exceptional importance of some of the footnotes in which Sue refers the reader to the pages of original authorities in French cited by him, the pages of an accessible American edition are in those cases either substituted or added in this translation.

DANIEL DE LEON.

New York, February, 1910.